# Game Data How might we analyse the big data exhausts of games to support game developers and understand people inside and outside of games? Project areas include: - **Imitation Learning:** Using game data from human players we can build AI opponents and team-mates to enhance multi-player games. - **Comparative Analysis of Games**: By comparing data across different games, developers can understand key factors underlying game genres or mechanics, leading to more successful future game designs. - **Social Dynamics in Games**: Studying data from multiplayer games can uncover fascinating insights about social dynamics and cooperation/competition among players. - **Game Economics**: In games with virtual economies, tracking and analysing economic data can help maintain balanced economies, which is crucial for player satisfaction and the longevity of the game. ## iGGi People relevant to this Theme: ### Dr Nick Ballou * iGGi Alum * Player Research, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/nick-ballou) ### Dr Ignacio Castro * Supervisor * Game AI, Applied Games, Player Research, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dr-ignacio-castro) ### Prof. Anders Drachen * Supervisor * Player Research, Design & Development, Game Data, Esports * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/prof-anders-drachen) ### Dr Miles Hansard * Supervisor * Game AI, Immersive Technology, Design & Development, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dr-miles-hansard) ### Prof. Paul Cairns * Supervisor * Applied Games, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/prof-paul-cairns) ### Dr Tom Collins * Supervisor * Game AI, Game Audio, Game Data, Player Research, Esports * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dr-tom-collins) ### Dr Dan Franks * Supervisor * Game AI, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dr-dan-franks) ### Yu-Jhen Hsu * iGGi Alum * Game AI, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/yu-jhen-hsu) ### Steph Carter * iGGi PG Researcher * Available for placement * Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/stephanie-carter) ### Dan Cooke * iGGi PG Researcher * Available for placement * Esports, Game Data, Player Research * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dan-cooke) ### Dr Jeremy Gow * Supervisor * Game AI, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Game Data * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dr-jeremy-gow) ### Dr Patrik Huber * Supervisor * Applied Games, Game Data, Immersive Technology, Player Research, Esports * [Read More](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dr-patrik-huber) ### iGGi Publications relevant to this Theme: ###### Beyond the Spotlight: Co-Designing AI for Theatre Audience Communication A Pedrassoli Chitayat, S Carter, BA Robertson, J Hook Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems * [Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/alan-pedrassoli-chitayat) * [View Details](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=YfuBda0AAAAJ&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=YfuBda0AAAAJ:3fE2CSJIrl8C) ###### Cost-Effective Attention Mechanisms for Low Resource Settings: Necessity & Sufficiency of Linear Transformations P Hosseini, M Hosseini, I Castro, M Purver arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01643, 2025 * [Peyman Hosseini](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/peyman-hosseini) * [View Details](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=APjCCb8AAAAJ&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=APjCCb8AAAAJ:WF5omc3nYNoC) ###### AI vs. the Algorithm: Measuring success on Twitch AP Chitayat 2025 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 1-8, 2025 * [Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/alan-pedrassoli-chitayat) * [View Details](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=YfuBda0AAAAJ&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=YfuBda0AAAAJ:MXK_kJrjxJIC) ###### Foundation Models as World Models: A Foundational Study in Text-Based GridWorlds R Sasso, M Conserva, D Jeurissen, P Rauber arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.15915, 2025 * [Dominik Jeurissen](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/dominik-jeurissen) * [Remo Sasso](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/remo-sasso) * [Dr Michelangelo Conserva](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/michelangelo-conserva) * [View Details](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=tuxp1j8AAAAJ&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=tuxp1j8AAAAJ:Y0pCki6q_DkC) ###### Archaeological Gameworld Affordances: A Grounded Theory of How Players Interpret Environmental Storytelling F Smith Nicholls, M Cook CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, Article no 465, p. 1 - 20 * [Dr Florence Smith Nicholls](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/florence-smith-nicholls) * [View Details](https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714036) ###### CG-TTRL: Context-Guided Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for On-Device Large Language Models P Hosseini, O Bohdal, T Ceritli, I Castro, M Purver, M Ozay, U Michieli arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06430, 2025 * [Peyman Hosseini](https://www.iggi-phd.org/people/peyman-hosseini) * [View Details](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=APjCCb8AAAAJ&pagesize=100&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=APjCCb8AAAAJ:roLk4NBRz8UC)